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SA To Unveil Momentous Mobile Clinic
The world’s first primary healthcare clinic on wheels will be launched in the South African city of Ladysmith on Thursday. The Phelophepa health train is an initiative by Eskom and Transnet, the electricity and freight logistics utilities respectively, aimed at providing mobile health services to communities across the country.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Atlanta Nonprofit Focused on Health Gets $2 Million Award
An Atlanta nonprofit focused on global health known for highlighting the work of its partners is getting a turn in the spotlight and a $2 million award from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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Myanmar Political Party Uses Microfinance Small Business Loans to Boost Its Election Chances
With the 2020 elections in mind, a political party thwarted by its lack of returns last November plans to make headway with a new microfinance scheme.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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New Brookings Report Highlights Advances in Financial and Digital Inclusion
Utilizing quality, affordable formal financial services effectively enables individuals to save for the future, invest in their livelihoods and families, and protect themselves in the case of financial emergencies. At the macroeconomic level, financial inclusion provides opportunities to promote economic growth, reduce income inequality, and combat poverty.
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- Technology
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25 Places to Raise Funding for Your African Tech Startup
African tech startups raised at least US $185.7 million in funding in 2015, and the signs are that 2016 is set to be another big year. Not sure where to look for investment? We’ll make it easy for you with this list of 25 good places to start.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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This Young African Social Entrepreneur Is Taking Her Social Business to the Next Level
Recently named by Forbes as one of Africa’s most promising entrepreneurs under 30, her vision is to help women create paths out of poverty and to break the cycle of child marriage and lost potential. Chilemba founded Tiwale, a for-profit social enterprise in Malawi when she was just 17.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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BREAKING: MTN Launches MoKash – Mobile Money Savings and Loans
Until late last evening, the company’s representatives were still handing out invitations to a launch event, happening this morning and expected to be graced by Uganda’s head of state, H. E. Yoweri Museveni, according to the invitation cards.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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This Startup is Fixing Health Care…in Kabul
Aschkan Abdul-Malek had come to Afghanistan to solve problems. He was working for a consulting firm, and in 2013 was helping the World Bank study healthcare constraints in developing countries. One day, as he was home talking to his cook, he learned how personally devastating the healthcare problem could be: The cook was spending six times his annual income to fly his wife to India for medical care, because she couldn’t find the doctor she needed at home.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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